Art & Collecting
Sotheby's: Audubon sells for record £7.3m
John James Audubon’s Birds of America, sold at Sotheby’s London for £7,321,250/ US$11,542,683, establishing a new world record for any printed book ever sold at auction
High Art Goes Hi-Tech
There’s more to digital design than gimmicks and gadgetry — which is why curators and collectors approach it as a form of contemporary art, says Nicole Swengley
Fashion for Jewels
Cartier UK was delighted to be the host of the official launch for Carol Woolton’s book, Fashion for Jewels: 100 years of Styles and Icons
Cash in the Attic
Owners of our great houses will not speak out, because at a time of austerity it would seem almost gloating to complain about the disrepair of palaces and the rotten gallery joists
A Spring in his Step
Diaghilev was no simple showman: working with the best composers and visual artists of his day, he took dance into the twentieth century, says Stephen Hill
When the Going Gets Toff
Ivan Lindsay on the current crop of aristocrats who are having to sell the family treasures in order to hang on to their stately piles
That Time Again Already?
No, your chronograph with tourbillon and moonphase indicator isn’t fast — come November, it’s time for London’s second annual SalonQP watch fair, says Tracey Llewellyn
Frieze Diary
I will be blogging every day from the fairs, exhibitions and parties of Frieze Week. Follow my tweets at twitter.com/joshspero
Cultural Revolution
Dealer Michael Goedhuis tells Anthony Haden-Guest why he believes contemporary Chinese art is all set for its next great leap forward
Green Zone
These are testing times for art dealers, but if the success of the Halcyon Gallery is anything to go by, tireless attention to clients’ needs is the trick to staying in business, says Alex Pendleton
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